Lorien Hill

Mother, teacher, democratic socialist. Lazy & inarticulate; rubbish at arguing as get too emotional - you will beat me easily in a twitter spat!

[Lorien Hill @LorienH]

@MyIQapp Scam! Think you only have to pay 1€ but then secretly sign you up for subscription of €29.99. Impossible to cancel subscription as the code they are supposed to email you never turns up!!!!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

New video of IDF soldiers raping Palestinian

Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs.

Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended the soldiers & one of the rapists became a TV celebrity

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Whilst entire media & political class meltdown over rapper at Glastonbury.

Worth reminding ourselves of what the IDF has been up to last 2 years:

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Two important things people need to understand:

1. We don’t have a media. We have a propaganda system

2. We don’t have a democracy. We have an oligarchy with some democratic furnishings

Good news is more people get it than ever. Gaza has exposed everything

[Ken O'Keefe @RealKenOKeefe]

They LIED about Libya.

They LIED about Syria.

They LIED about Iraq.

They are LYING about Iran.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Every day

Zionism is beyond evil

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

An astonishing editorial in Israel's liberal Haaretz paper calling for full western sanctions against Israel and not the feeble entry restrictions on two cabinet ministers announced this week by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway.

You can't imagine anything like this being published in the western press.

Extracts:

It is hard to know whether these countries are being naïve or cowardly. Are they just paying lip service, or do they really believe this punishment will have some sort of effect on Israel's moves?...

Perhaps this tiny, ridiculous step is meant only to be a wake-up call to a world that has been dozing peacefully amid the slaughter of Gaza, and in its wake will come the deluge. Yet from another perspective, one can't help but scoff. We deserve a lot more...

The five countries that have taken the baby steps have joined the United States of the previous administration, which imposed personal sanctions on two and a half violent settlers. That was the American contribution that preceded the war on apartheid. But apartheid looked straight into the whites of those sanctions' eyes – and has grown even stronger, along with settler violence...

What Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is not happening because of [Itamar] Ben-Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich. They aren't even the main culprits. Blaming them and only them is self-righteousness and hypocrisy...

The sanctions must be directed at the entire government, from Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, to the least senior government minister. Sanctions should also target the military officers and the bureaucrats who are carrying out the slaughter in Gaza.

A majority of Israelis, as public opinion polls indicate, support the slaughter and are even waiting for the population transfer [ethnic cleansing] that is to come in its wake. Therefore, the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety...

Diplomats and decision-makers, do you get this? In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

❗️We asked defence secretary John Healey about UK spy flights for Israel amid the genocide.

He didn't seem too pleased.

Please repost after watching 👇

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🚨Israel has attacked Iran.

Netanyahu claims missile strikes are “preemptive” to curtail Iran’s nuclear programme.

It’s no such thing.

Israel is attempting to start a war that will distract from its war crimes in Gaza.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Iran hasn’t started a single war in 200 years.

America has started 10 wars

Israel has started 3 wars

And IRAN is the one who shouldn’t have nukes?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Refresher on the rules for discussing Israeli wars:

Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it's either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.

Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.

Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or China.

Rule 4: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.

Rule 5: Israel never bombs civilians, it bombs Bad Guys. If shocking numbers of civilians die it's because they were actually Bad Guys, or because Bad Guys killed them, or because a Bad Guy stood too close to them. If none of those reasons apply then it's for some other mysterious reason we are still waiting for the IDF to investigate.

Rule 6: Criticizing anything Israel does means you hate Jewish people. There is no other possible reason for anyone to oppose acts of mass military slaughter besides a seething, obsessive hatred for a small Abrahamic faith.

Rule 7: Nothing Israel does is ever as bad as the hateful criticisms described in Rule 6. Criticisms of Israel's actions are always worse than Israel's actions themselves, because those critics hate Jews and wish to commit another Holocaust. Preventing this must consume 100 percent of our political energy and attention.

Rule 8: Israelis are only ever the victims and never the victimizers. If Israelis kill Iranians, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. If Iranians kill Israelis, it's because the Iranians hate Jews. Israel is an innocent little lamb that just wants to mind its own business in peace.

Rule 9: The fact that Israel is literally always in a state of war with its neighbors and with displaced indigenous populations must be interpreted as proof that Rule 8 is true instead of proof that Rule 8 is ridiculous nonsense.

Rule 10: Muslim lives are much, much less important to us than western lives or Israeli lives. Nobody is allowed to think too hard about why this might be.

Rule 11: The media always tell the truth about Israel and its various conflicts. If you doubt this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.

Rule 12: Unsubstantiated claims which portray Israel's enemies in a negative light may be reported as factual news stories without any fact checking or qualifications, while extensively evidenced records of Israeli criminality must be reported on with extreme skepticism and doubtful qualifiers like "Hezbollah says" or "according to the Hamas-run health ministry". This is important to do because otherwise you might get accused of being a propagandist.

Rule 13: Israel must continue to exist in its current iteration no matter what it costs or how many people need to die. There is no need to present any logically or morally grounded reasons why this is the case. If you dispute this then you are likely in violation of Rule 6.

Rule 14: The US government has never lied about anything ever, and is always on the right side of every conflict.

Rule 15: Israel is the last bastion of freedom and democracy in the middle east and therefore must be defended, no matter how many journalists it has to assassinate, no matter how many press institutions it needs to shut down, no matter how many protests its supporters need to dismantle, no matter how much free speech it needs to eliminate, no matter how many civil rights its western backers need to erase, and no matter how many elections its lobbyists need to buy.

[Lorien Hill @LorienH]

@Thelma_DWalker @kennardmatt

[War on Want @WarOnWant]

The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has just confirmed £ billions in welfare cuts in the #springbudget, while announcing a £2.2 billion increase in military spending.

The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.

[Lorien Hill @LorienH]

@LibertyCappy Because they are not left anymore. They have moved to the right and support corporate interests and war

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Pure evil. This is social murder. Of our most vulnerable communities.

Labour needs to be shut down.

[Lorien Hill @LorienH]

@TomLondon6 4 and 5

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Europe has cancelled more elections than Russia

[Hussain Ibarra @HussainIbarra]

3) Economic growth won't make you wealthy.

Money doesn't make society richer. Money is not a resource like food, energy, and housing.

If everyone just receives more money, the prices go up.
Creating more resources and assets is how you make a society richer.